Nehemiah 1:4

Nehemiah's Prayer

³ and they say to me, 'Those left, who have been left of the captivity there in the province, are in great evil, and in reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burnt with fire.' ⁴ And it cometh to pass, at my hearing these words, I have sat down, and I weep and mourn for days, and I am fasting and praying before the God of the heavens. ⁵ And I say, 'I beseech thee, O Jehovah, God of the heavens, God, the great and the fearful, keeping the covenant and kindness for those loving Him, and for those keeping His commands,

Fasted and Prayed

God of Heaven

No

Nehemiah 2:4

And the king saith to me, 'For what art thou seeking?' and I pray unto the God of the heavens,

Ezra 10:1

And at Ezra's praying, and at his making confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there have been gathered unto him out of Israel an assembly very great -- men and women and children -- for the people have wept, multiplying weeping.

Psalm 137:1

By rivers of Babylon -- There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

1 Samuel 4:17-22

And he who is bearing tidings answereth and saith, 'Israel hath fled before the Philistines, and also a great slaughter hath been among the people, and also thy two sons have died -- Hophni and Phinehas -- and the ark of God hath been captured.'

Ezra 5:11-12

And thus they have returned us word, saying, We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built many years before this, that a great king of Israel built and finished:

Ezra 9:3

And at my hearing this word, I have rent my garment and my upper robe, and pluck out of the hair of my head, and of my beard, and sit astonished,

Psalm 69:9-10

For zeal for Thy house hath consumed me, And the reproaches of Thy reproachers Have fallen upon me.

Psalm 102:13-14

Thou -- Thou risest -- Thou pitiest Zion, For the time to favour her, For the appointed time hath come.

Daniel 2:18

and to seek mercies from before the God of the heavens concerning this secret, that they destroy not Daniel and his companions with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 9:3

and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

Jonah 1:9

And he saith unto them, 'A Hebrew I am, and Jehovah, God of the heavens, I am reverencing, who made the sea and the dry land.'

Zephaniah 3:18

Mine afflicted from the appointed place I have gathered, from thee they have been, Bearing for her sake reproach.

Romans 12:15

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,